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During the World Cup in Brasilia, we follow Maninho (Willian Jesus Vieira), a former professional soccer player who started working as a street vendor, selling water and national team flags. On the way to his new job, memories awaken a recent memory that is at once playful and melancholic. After all, which soccer player in Brazil has never dreamed of playing in a World Cup?

Documentary about the Portuguese language, and people who speak it around the world.

A poetic vision of the city Brasília.

Drama, closure and rekindled flames collide as cast members from past seasons of "Love is Blind Brazil" come together in this special reunion episode.

I recorded four years of the life of a great friend of mine in the attempt to catch some sort of catharsis. As I tried to deal with endings that were taking place in my life, the inevitable happened to him. His mother passed away without leaving any record on video. This is a movie to refrain from the fear of forgetting.

1000 Trutas, 1000 Tretas is a live DVD by the Brazilian rap group Racionais MC's, released in 2006.

Between sambas and memories, composers, performers and "Velha Guarda do Samba" instrumentalists from Belo Horizonte

Extreme life-and-death situations that happen every day around the world, captured by journalists and amateur videographers with great courage and nerves of steel.

Apocalipopótese documents a public art happening organized by Rogério Duarte with Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape. Duarte coined the event’s title by fusing the words apotheosis, hypothesis, and apocalypse, in order to describe a series of artistic actions that distanced themselves from artistic institutions to approach the streets as the main stage. Apocalipopótese shows a search for the margins as creative methodology.

Curitiba, PR, December 8, 1959; at around five o'clock in the afternoon, Military Police sub-lieutenant Haroldo Tavares enters the Bazar Centenário, Praça Tiradentes, to buy a comb. He chooses one, finds it expensive and demands an invoice. The store owner, Amhad Najar, argues and they end up fighting. The warrant officer leaves the fight with a fractured leg. Outside the store, the people who were watching the fight and the fight rebel, destroy the merchant's store and go to other stores in the square. The police cannot control the situation. Late at night, a truce: the population goes to sleep, gathering strength for the following days, when the situation becomes unsustainable. The police withdraw from the streets, the Army begins to act and, on the tenth, puts the tanks on the streets.

Retelling the story of my father’s death is an attempt to fill a space full of gaps, to perceive life in inanimate things, to embody a disembodied figure, to populate an irreplaceable place, to speak the unspeakable.

The paths that the artist traveled to create two essays that are landmarks of contemporary Brazilian photography.

Short documentary about orchids.

In an antique shop in downtown São Paulo, a love story from the past is revealed amid the daily life of the place.

In 1982, a young Lula embarks on a campaign trip to Recife where intimate moments from the leader’s trip are captured on Super 8. THE VISIT was resurrected from original archival Super 8 footage from 1982 and edited over 42 years later to create a short film that offers a unique glimpse into the early political life of future Brazilian president Luiz Inácio da Silva as he engages with party colleagues and passionate activists in an effort to strengthen their party against the military dictatorship.

Located at the intersection of disability and queerness, this documentary enriches, implicates, and breaks open the conversation around sexual life in the disabled community. This film does not shy away from the complexities and challenges of queer life, but rather embraces them and in doing so, illuminates how they impact one another and bring new dimensionality to the position of the body within them. Resisting a normative lens, this filmmaker uses the observational power of the camera to document the raw sexuality, fantasies, and erotic expressions of a wide array of subjects with rare candor and vulnerability. Embodied sexual explorations are balanced against interviews that in their frankness and insightfulness criticize and deepen the lacking conversation around this intersection in the wider discourse.

Stretching along 4,000 thousand miles, the biodiversity of the Brazilian coast is extremely rich. From the temperate South to the equatorial North, the coast of Brazil hosts wild journeys and performances every day.

A white man, yet forged in the samba de engraxate that had its main stronghold in downtown São Paulo, Germano Mathias became an icon of a musical style that mixed a lot of "malandragem" and poetry. We follow Germano as he recounts his life, journey, and brings us memories of a city that, while it no longer exists, is still hidden from our distracted gazes.

Eduardo Coutinho was filming a movie with the same name in the Northeast of Brazil, in 1964, when there came the military coup. He had to interrupt the project, and came back to it in 1981, looking for the same places and people, showing what had ocurred since then, and trying to gather a family whose patriarch, a political leader fighting for rights of country people, had been murdered.

José, born in São José dos Pinhais, Paraná, wants to learn more about his town's history. To do so, he schedules a conversation with historian Maria Angélica Marochi at the Municipal Library. While they talk, a strange figure walks through the rural landscapes of São José dos Pinhais, searching for a distant past.

This is the story of Dona Virginia, an elderly woman who awaits the expropriation of her house. Year after year, the government threatens to destroy the place, her past and her memories.

Film installation depicting aerial landscape photography at Sebastião Selgado's Amazônia exhibition. Accompanied with 'Erosão - Origem do Rio Amazonas' by Heitor Villa-Lobos.

Fragments of the daily life of Álvaro, who left Pinochet’s Chile in the 1980s to invent a new life for himself in Brazil.

"Before I Forget" is a short film by Jairo Ferreira. It was filmed in 1977, during the release of the book of the same name of Roberto Bicelli. The poet is part, along with Cláudio Willer and Roberto Piva, of the surrealist group of São Paulo. Also participating in the short Jorge Mautner and Nelson Jacobina.

In 1982, the Arpoador Beach, in Rio de Janeiro, received the first "incarnation" of Circo Voador, a venue for artists of diverse aspects showing their art to the public. Months later, Circo landed at Lapa, the city's most bohemian neighborhood. Today, more than three decades later, the venue has become a cultural reference in the country. This documentary is directed by Tainá Menezes and has testimonials from artists such as Gilberto Gil, Lobão, Evandro Mesquita and more than 50 personalities that were part of the history of Circo Voador.

A short documentary of macaws

The story of independent bands of the Brazilian melodic hardcore scene, from the second half of the 90s to the present day.

The documentary narrates the trajectory of Waldick Soriano, from the time he was a gold miner to his consecration as one of the icons of Brazilian music.

November 26, 2005. The day Grêmio defeated his opponent in enemy territory with seven men on the pitch. Warriors covered with the ever-victorious sacred mantle of three colors. No team in the world has the determination, the spirit of claw and the bravery typical of the gaucho as the Immortal Tricolor. Facing diversities is part of the culture and history of this club that fills the Rio Grande do Sul with pride and joy. Only Grêmio would be able to overcome the difficulties of this battle and make history as Brazilian Champion of Series B. An epic that the tricolor nation will never tire of remembering, reviving and celebrating. The living, real story of who was there. Exciting testimonials and exclusive images will make you, gremista, get emotional once more, as if you were in the Estádio dos Aflitos.

A striker who challenges the best in the world and sings that the rival fan is a fool. A footvolley duel at night, on the eve of a classic match on the sands of Ipanema. A star player who proclaims himself a god against the kings of Rio and says that his rival is a piece of shit. It all seems so distant, because it is. But those were just a few ordinary days in Rio de Janeiro football in 1995.

The unexpected victory over Uruguay in the World Cup Brazil 1950 continues to have social and political ramifications for both countries.

Every year 288 thousand people attempt suicide in Brazil. The film documents the creative process of actors preparing a play about the re-encounter of a girl who has attempted suicide with her friends from a theatre group. The idea is to give a voice to the young people, those who have attempted, the friends and relatives of those who survive and those who die. The documentary proposes a recovery of self-esteem and hope for those who consider suicide, encouraging all to give a new meaning to their existence, indicating the possibility of new choices and pathways.

"A Long Journey" tells the story of three siblings who reach adolescence in the late 1960's. The documentary's storyline follows the youngest brother's travels around the world. Worried that he would enter the struggle for freedom against the Brazilian dictatorship, his family sent Heitor to London. There however, he dives head on into the "Swinging London" and, just like the European and American youth of the time period, he experiments with drugs and the mystic allure of India. In the nine years he has traveled around the world, from 1969 to 1978, he has regularly written to his family. The documentary features interviews with Heitor today, his letters and off-screen comments of Heitor's sister, Lúcia Murat, the director of the movie.

The Tanaru Indigenous Territory holds the memory and story of the 'Man of the Hole.' As the sole survivor of his people, he outlived the massacre that ravaged Rondônia during the 1990s.

A video essay that seeks to represent, study and pay homage to the North American filmmaker Cecelia Condit, covering all of her film work and video installation, portraying her through devices of semiotics, aesthetics and cinematographic language.

Paulina Chiziane in Mozambique, Elisa Lucinda in Brazil, and Raquel Lima in Portugal have their daily lives revealed and altered in the exchange of nine letters that cross the Atlantic and its colonial history. Desires, anxieties, and struggles to continue as writers in the diaspora are presented in a poetic narrative of sounds, spiritualities, and bodies, in which their existence challenges racism, sexism, and xenophobia, looking towards the future of the Portuguese language and its speakers.

For two decades, Cine Marrocos, a movie theatre in the heart of São Paulo, was one of the most popular and opulent of the city. After it was closed, in 1972, it was occupied by a homeless workers' movement. The documentary tells the story of the people who lived there, alternating scenes from an acting class with those of the movies exhibited there in the past.

The story of the portuguese serial kisser, who travelled the whole world searching famous people to kiss.

The city of Brasilia hoped to become, from its very architecture, the expression of modern urban conception and an egalitarian society. However, neither the workers hired to pursue this project, nor the constant migratory flow that took place from the beginning, fitted in the government’s plan. In 1971, it began what was known as the “Campaign to Eradicate Invaders”. Together with other locals, the director reflects on the history, the transformations and the future of this place where the hypocritical official jingle “A cidade é uma só!” is no longer heard.

Brazilian singer Rita Lee narrates moments about her life, from her childhood to the meeting with Roberto de Carvalho. The documentary is permeated with excerpts from the singer's concerts, with songs sung entirely.

Armando Costa was one of Brazil's most successful authors, both in terms of audience and critical acclaim, responsible for shows like "A Grande Família" and "Malu Mulher." Despite this, he didn't care about fame or signing his works.

Documentary on the life of uruguayan legendary musician Hugo Fattoruso.

An abandoned tumbledown theater in the outback of Paraíba state is the initial setting of a film about cinema, which explores the testimonials of the novelist and playwright Ariano Suassuna and other filmmakers such as Ruy Guerra, Julio Bressane, Ken Loach, Andrzej Wajda, Karim Ainouz, José Padilha, Hector Babenco, Vilmos Zsigmond, Béla Tarr, Gus Van Sant and Jia Zhangke. They all respond to two basic questions: why do they make movies and why do they serve the seventh art. The filmmakers share their thoughts about time, narrative, rhythm, light, movement, the meaning of tragedy, the audience‘s desires and the boundaries with other forms of art.

Reporter Joaquim de Carvalho reconstructs the 580 days of Lula's unjust imprisonment, with exclusive testimonials from those who closely followed the former president's day-to-day life from the concentration at the ABC Metallurgical Union, the presentation to the Federal Police, the flight to Curitiba, prison until release. Documentary shows unprecedented backstage. The direction is by Joaquim de Carvalho and Patri Salgado, with images by Eric Monteiro and photography by Ricardo Stuckert and Vigília Lula Livre.

One of the greatest neuroscience breakthroughs is having discovered that babies are far more than a genetic load. The development of all human beings lies on the combination of genetics, the quality of the relationships and the environment they are set on. The Beginning of Life invites everyone to reflect: are we taking good care of this unique moment, which defines both the present and future of humankind?